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Down and Out in Paris and London

By George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London Social Sciences

Down and Out in Paris and London

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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2013-01-03
Publication Date:
2013-01-03
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141393033
ISBN13:
9780141393032
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
134 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
110 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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